Depending on how things progress through this offseason, and if they do how I suspect they will, I would be ready to give Tramon's money to Neal.

I think it would be a mistake to let Neal walk and keep Tramon on the books. Even if it means losing Tramon THIS season.

I don't want to cut Tramon this season, but there are some money issues to figure out. Tramon isn't worth his check, and Finley isn't worth his. Neal and Shields are guys who need to stick around IMO. I want to see Neal 1 more year, healthy before I hand him a big check.

As much as I like micah hyde he wouldn't replace Jared bush on STs.
He would replace the opposite gunner, whoever that is. Jeremy Ross?

Not so sure about that. You can only keep so many DB's on your 53. Bush would be a tough cut though IMO. But I always lean on the side of young and cheap when it's close. If Hyde comes to play that could make for a fun watch come cut day.

Reading my mail/PM's here and think I need to clear something up that might have come off my keyboard the wrong way.

I DO NOT FEEL TT MADE A MISTAKE WITH THE TRADE/LACY PICK. I disagree with it and feel they should have stayed right where they were and picked Ball. That's not a mistake by the Packers camp though. Clearly TT new the risk and made that trade with the mindset of having like value still on his board at the later pick. If he felt Ball was a much better prospect he would not have made that trade. Big difference between a mistake and the disagreement of value though.

Many teams make at least one mistake on draft day looking back at it a day or two later with 20/20. I feel the Packers did so this year but it was the Tretter pick not the Lacy thing. There was a run on centers there and IMO TT jumped the gun on Tretter because he did not want to be left behind. Got a good prospect there but IMO a round(at least) too early with good players still on the board.

Am I right in saying that Lacy vs. Ball is contingent on the medical? So that could be a wash. Tretter I can not say either way.

My guess was that some teams did not pass Lacy on the medical, but TT did, and sitting at 55 TT was thinking "we have really close grades on Ball, Lacy, and maybe even Michael" and if we trade back 5 spots one of those three will still be there (and in fact, two of them were.)

Palmy has a clear preference for Ball over Lacy, but perhaps the Packer FO did not (perhaps they even preferred Lacy to Ball), so you can't blame them for the move (personally I didn't like Lacy or Ball, but the Steelers got my guy, and I'm unsure about the locker room stuff with Michael.)

Whether or not Tretter was taken a round early, that sort of mistake is perhaps less problematic when you're holding ten day 3 picks.

Do you have a feeling about the trade back in round 3? Was it more of a "the board is in shambles" or more of a "we have the same grade on a dozen prospects right now"?

Do you think they were targeting one of the guys they went between 88 and 93, and were chagrined when he was selected (Possibly Bailey? I can't see Brennan Williams, Duron Harmon, or Kayvon Webster as GB targets) so traded back further, or was TT telling the truth when he said they felt great about how the board was stacked up?

Do you have a feeling about the trade back in round 3? Was it more of a "the board is in shambles" or more of a "we have the same grade on a dozen prospects right now"?

Do you think they were targeting one of the guys they went between 88 and 93, and were chagrined when he was selected (Possibly Bailey? I can't see Brennan Williams, Duron Harmon, or Kayvon Webster as GB targets) so traded back further, or was TT telling the truth when he said they felt great about how the board was stacked up?

Good chance they just liked the way the board was setting up later on and I can see why.

FWIW:
"We liked Montee Ball a lot. We kind of had them in the same range."-Brian Gutekunst

"I personally thought he was the top back in the class."-Alex Van Pelt (on Lacy)

I have little doubt they liked Ball in the fit. I might be wrong. But LIS, I do feel they would have taken Ball had they not made that trade. I can see why TT made the trade though also. I'm just not so sure I agree with it. That's all.

I can clearly see why someone from Van Pelt's POV would love Lacy though also.

FWIW:
"We liked Montee Ball a lot. We kind of had them in the same range."-Brian Gutekunst

"I personally thought he was the top back in the class."-Alex Van Pelt (on Lacy)

I have little doubt they liked Ball in the fit. I might be wrong. But LIS, I do feel they would have taken Ball had they not made that trade. I can see why TT made the trade though also. I'm just not so sure I agree with it. That's all.

I can clearly see why someone from Van Pelt's POV would love Lacy though also.

Between Lacy and Ball who has better hands and pass blocking ability? Also, did Ball's volume of carries raise any flags?_________________

Nnivolcm wrote:

Ugh... Avoid Green Bay's GDT. There is so much stupid in there that I felt dumber reading some of it.

FWIW:
"We liked Montee Ball a lot. We kind of had them in the same range."-Brian Gutekunst

"I personally thought he was the top back in the class."-Alex Van Pelt (on Lacy)

I have little doubt they liked Ball in the fit. I might be wrong. But LIS, I do feel they would have taken Ball had they not made that trade. I can see why TT made the trade though also. I'm just not so sure I agree with it. That's all.

I can clearly see why someone from Van Pelt's POV would love Lacy though also.

Between Lacy and Ball who has better hands and pass blocking ability? Also, did Ball's volume of carries raise any flags?

I didn't look too much into Ball's passing routes, but Lacy really just ran a bunch of dump off passes. Screens and stuff. I thought both were solid blockers._________________

What makes me feel amazing about the RB situations (tell me if I am wrong) is that we traded 55 (Ball possibly??) for 61 (Lacy) and pick number 173. We then used that 173rd pick and number 146 to trade up to 125. The spot that we took Johnathan Franklin. Who knows who we would have taken at 146, but the way I see it is that it was Lacy and Franklin or Ball and 146.